I have a requirement where we have some huge amount of legacy data in 
Excel 97 spreadsheets. The data need to be moved over to Oracle database. 
We need to write a small export utility to move the data. What is the best 
way to write this export utility? 

what format is the dat in ? CSV, excel etc ? Have you tried some of the 
Oracle related groups ? a quick check on Google gives a few choices :

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=%22excel+to+oracle%22

At 18:47 18/09/02 +0000, you wrote:
>I have a requirement where we have some huge amount of legacy data in
>Excel 97 spreadsheets. The data need to be moved over to Oracle database.
>We need to write a small export utility to move the data. What is the best
>way to write this export utility?
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